High school students at the Western New York Climate Action Summit producing the greenhouse effect in a beaker.

Teaching
climate change poses special challenges - climate change has not been a
part of many teachers' preparation programs, and it is tightly
connected to psychological, social, and cultural issues in ways that
most other science content is not. We believe it is amongst the most
important content to teach.

Last month, PRI published The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Changeedited and largely written by Ingrid Zabel, Don Duggan-Haas, and Robert Ross. The
book provides both a solid overview of the physical science, and discussions of
and approaches to those special challenges of teaching this content.

The
work was done with support from the National Science Foundation,
allowing us to make the pdf of the 284-page book available free (click
the button "Download full version" here), but we know that many people prefer real print books.

Today,
we've launched a crowdfunding campaign to send print copies of the
book to as many teachers as we can. This campaign is intended to help
get meaningful, scientifically accurate materials into the hands of
teachers. Please help us out. Donate if you can, and please spread the
word about both the book and the crowdfunding campaign!

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PRI and its Museum of the Earth is located in Ithaca, NY, and was founded in 1932 by Gilbert Harris, professor of geology at Cornell University, to house his collection and library, the Institution has gone through several expansions, most recently with the creation of the Museum of the Earth. The Museum contains 8000 square feet of permanent exhibits, telling the history of life on Earth through the geological record of the Northeastern U.S. Unique elements include the skeletons of the Hyde Park Mastodon and Right Whale #2030 and the 544 square foot mural, Rock of Ages Sands of Time.